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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01


The baneful effects, both mental
and physical that come from cigar.
cite smoking have been often called to
theattention of young men. A strik.
ing instance of these effects was
brought TO public attention at the ex.
animation for the West Point cadet
ship at Westfesd. Mass, q short time
since, where ten out of twenty appli.
cants were rejected as physically un-
Gt because they had 'the tobacco
heart" brought on by excessive cigar.
cite smoking. Young men who take
any pride ina healthy physical con.
ditfon, and one that will serve them
faithfully, can extract a very valua'
BILE moral from this fact.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01

Farmers and others VINO work hard
ought to sweat freely. This is health.
full, for it carries off dead matters
from the body, and thus it is that
hard work is better than physic. But
the benefit from persptring becomes
more than n~eutralized unless the effete
and poisonous matter which it brings
to the surface is promptly removed.
Every night at least a sponge wet with
water should be passed over the en-
tire body, followed by brisk rubbing
until dry. The water may be cold or
warm, but for cleaning the skin it
should be as warm as the body. a
little liquid ammonia added to soften
water wonderfully increases its deter
gent qualities and beside it leaves the
skin fresh and cool, admirably pre-.
pairing the body for healthful sleep.
Tho ammoniated water after being
used for bathing is all the better for
watering garden or house plants.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01

Gen. Sheridan lately reviewed near.
ly 10000 rnen of the National guard
OF Pennsylvania, all in the uniform Of
the regular army. He said that In
AL material essentials they were equal
Of the best troops he ever saw in the
field, and that thirty days of active
service would make the citizen soldier
as effective as veterans with years
OF training. According to this high
authority no State in the Union pos.
sesses such a fine military force as
Pennsylvania, and she could place
more effective men in the field in an
emergency than even the general gov
eminent. General Sheridan lays
special stress upon the fact that the
Pennsylvania soldiers were so pro.
ficient in camp police duties. and able
to take care of themselves under all
circumstances.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01


Mrs. Wilbur f. Storey, the widow
OF the late editor ofthe Chicago Times,
and who has become better known as
Eureka G. Story. because all through
the interminable legislation over the
wills she is referred to in that way, is
stitl a handsome, robust woman.
The litigation she is leading has al.
ready lasted four years and promises
to be the most interminable and ex-
pepsi.e one ever carried on in the
West. 'srhe bills of my lawyers" she
said, land the expenses of my side Of
this legal fight have already amounted
to $4,000. 1t has cost me already
that much in my efforts to get a viii,
written by my husband with his own
hand, ~probated in Cook county"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01
Damn Cellars Hurtful.

'Do not live over a damp celler an
hour" imperatively advises ANNALS
OF Hygiene and to impress the i'm.
portance of the injunction the writer
cites a recent case near Pottsville.
Penn, where seven children were
down-sick with typhoid, not as analy.
sis proved due to the common source
(poisoned drinking waterl, but tC
subterranean darkness and moisture
that infected the whole house: with
this insidious foe to life and health
they ate and slept contentedly until
the favorite child, a boy of eleven,
was taken i'll and died. Then suspect
ing the damp cellar, the drain was
cleared out, but it was too late, the
mischief was done and all of the chill
dren had the disease. As / looked at
the bereaved and saddened mother,
/ could but pity her want OF knowl-
edge that had brought such affiic.
ton"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01
Fen FARM Notes.

What the protection OF q coolporch
is to the haymaker during the oriei
rest after a hearty dinner, such, says
sThe Prairie Farmer" is the clump OF
shade trees on the breezy knoll
to the cows while digesting the large
bulk OF grass they must eat TO makes
liberal portion OF rich milk.
1t is, says an exchange, by no means
a settled question whether red clover
isnot a better subsoider than any plow
that raj ever invented. Its long
roots penetrate the soil much deeper,
and dying, as they do, the second
year, they do not only open up the soil
more effectually to the influence ofthe
sun and air, but by their decay serve
to enrich it as we'll.
A tract of land sixty miles byforty,
neal Port Hope, Canada, produces
more peas than any other equal area
in the world. The secret OF J IL
that peas grown on this favored tract
are tree from bugs. One-third OF n
land is sown with peas yearly, ana
many American seedsmen have their
peas grown here. The exemption from
bugs Is attributed to the effect OF
Georgian Bay in cooling the summers
so that the bugs do not mature early
enough for the peas.-American Guilt
vator.
For some purposes toy ponies are
not only highly ornamental but use.
full. The pure bred Shetlands are
small from, 80 to AZ inches high, well
shaped, short limbed, bright collored,
long names and tails, quick. inteli-
cent, docile, easy TO break, for riding
or driving, and in a family OF kind
children there can be no more delight.
full pets.
When a horse refuses food, and Is
secured and constipated by turns, it
indicates Indigestion. The remedy is
to lessen the food and change it.
Give bran mash, with a quart OF lin
coed in it once q day; no medicine Is
needed if this has the desired effect.
If not give a pint of raw linseed oil,
and follow it with a small handful OF
salt in it. Salt should be given daily
to horses; about n ounce is the
right quantity.
The value OF q water power must
be estimated in proportion first, to
its extent; second to its availability,
ease OF access and nearness to trans.
portation, and third, the amount OF
business that can be done. Ten feet
fail, with $500 cubic feet per minute,
will give a theoretical power equal to
66 horse, which with the best tur-
bine wheels, or an ~overshot, would
give so actual horse power. Such a
water power would be valued by ex-
perts according to these elements.
In a manufacturing locality 50-hoIse
power would sell for $4,000 upward.
What avails indoor cleanliness if
twenty feet from the house there is an
open drain, if dish water is thrown
out the back door and scraps from
the table, G shells and coffee grounds
decorate the back yard as they are
handily cast out ofthe window. Save
what will furnish TODD for the hens or
pigs in a pail over which keep barrel
head, if you can not afford one of the
covered pals made for such purposes.
This will prevent q host OF flies and
avail more than q halt dozen f1v-traps
later on. Burn everything that is of
no value.-New England Farmer.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01

Within the past three years four
cases have excited national interest
have been tried in that city, and in
each case the jury has brought in a
verdict which has accorded with
the evidence and public opin-
ion. The juries are known as
the Joe" Mackin jury. the Anarchist
jury, the McGarigle jury and the
ssboodle'' commissioners jury. A
conviction has been secured in every
case. The results are that Mackin is
in prison, the Anarchists are awaiting
the decision OF the Court on an APP
plicatioIior a new trial, IcGarigle
has escaped to Canada, andthe "boo-
de commissioners have either paid
their fines or are awaiting the issue
OF an appeal to a higher court. II
Justice fails IN any case it VIII not be
the iault Of the jury, and those who
have been accustomed to read q great
deal against the jury system, and
mich that is crude and III considered,
viii remember these facts.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01
Achaptsr on Farn Eesrs,.

There is no trade or oseuns
life in which true economy
pcrtant as in farming. By &
we do not mean stinginssaoz
ones self the common eo1asa,4
life. The farmer who practises
not expect to command tia &
and respect of his feliow-meu.na
tain it himself. Nor ID It neeszs
this connection to admonish i,
of the Importance and necess;l
saving what they make, and Il
ing into ready cash all kinds II
ducts not needed on the farm s.
is the little economies to wb;s
would now more PARTICULARS
the attention OF farmers.
In the first place, the econos2
farmer is necessarily
farmer. He cannot AFFORD y
low weeds and briers to grow 81
his fence corners to rob the sail +
fertility and rot his fence. HI $
afford to allow his gates and farr
PIGMENTS to go to rack for the s.
a little repair; his farm build;ns'
do the same for the want ol I +:
seeing to, well knowing that msa1
the value CT his property depend
on it's appearance.
Take any two farms OF ths s
number of acres lying in the
neighborhood, and composed 81
same character of land. the ons ;
its fencing were it not for the IS
and weeds that support i'll aboaS
tumble down, its fields inconvenis'
located, its buildings in a state 81
apidation without any approaxI
lawn to give an air of comfort ii
premises, and the other with an fl
improvements plainly in view. ara
differencein the market valueofths'
will be from 90 to 80 per cent. ina
OF the latter simply on account d
neatness, Another essential coin
economical farming is system. &
business is it more necessary Fl
cess. Haphazard farming may, i
true earn a living, such as 4
for the time being but can never
up anything for a rainy day.
methodical man, however, alx
knows his business, and can arr,
it so as to accomplish what he Ia
do with much less inconvenience,
pense or labor than he who fsy
It in a desultory, slipshod man
There must be system in. eyerytl
pertaining to the farm-system ia
ing everything in time: system N i
ing a place for everything and es
thing in its place; system in not
ting OF anything till to-morrow |
can be done to-day; system in 4
ming, in working, in grain growi1,
stock breeding and feeding; in 81
system in eyerything
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01
Mary Anderson, the famous actress.

Mary Anderson, the famous actress,
owes all her success to the American
people, having grown up with them
and receiving her first start toward
success in this country. But since
she has been petted and lionized by
John BMlis polished snobs she has
become inclined to snub her American
relatives and now it is reported
doubtful fsshe aver returns to her
native country and the haunts of
childhood in Kentucky. where she
reamed .barefooted. a gaunt and
sc-awny girl. and drove the cows
home from pasture.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01

No right-thinkiug young woman VIII
5;rt No sensible girl viii firt. Flirt-
ing Is q mark Of weakness and aol.y
and fearful sin. Then avoid It as you
would the open door to perdition.
Ayoid it as the direst evil you can
The poet says, ellie is real. life is
earnest.n and he told a living truth
mas should always be kept in mind.
You have no time to flirt. Thehours,
the DAYS, the years are passing on,
and they are bearing you-whithers
Are they bearing. you to 9 nome =.
love. purity and happiness, or 10
loneliness, wreck and desolationf
When years have gone by and you
look back into the past, must you
see only crooked ioot-printsY MUST
YOU in time to come have only bitter
memories? Flirting will leave you no
halIowed memories. Flirting is sin
ful and rninous.-Cincinnati Gazette.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01

lucky is in litigation on account oil
an allegation that the deceased ODD
tsasted his second marriage when in
"a drunken stapor. Marriage is a
pretty serious business at all times,
and a propis sor contract entered
INTO by either party should be the e
suit of sober thought-which is not
always thecase, even whom spiritnous
irtoxicants are lacking.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01

The Boston and Providence Raft.
road has already paid $3.50, 600 on
account ofthe Busy bridge disaster
neal Boston a few months ago, and
the aggregate of unsatisfied claims is
as much more. This is a costly but
just penalty for negligence and the
false economy of a few thousand dol.
lars on bridge inspection. A million
Of dollars viii about cover it, and
some of the stockholders will have to
exist on reduced dividends for a year
or two.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01

From ths spsetator.

From the Spectator.
II words were not so weak
To tell our best thoughts dear
Then l might speak.
Aud you might hear.
II earth were not go bleak
Our roses mightnot die
And | might seek
And find you nigh.
You found, what / should seek?
You mine. What / should need
To make this bleak
Earth heaven indeed
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01
Farm Gardening.

The farmers garden has been a
good deal written about OF late years;
II any benefit comes from it, the scribes
should keep on scribbling. The
garden s~ustains intimate and conse-
quential relations TO the family; ii
ministers to tine household in no
reundabout, immaterial way, but
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01

directly and subs aHu
field of wheat, prof.
ard anxieties. may
as the freaks Of the
termine, but that te5Aes a'
healthful asparagus, Lass1l
peas that made thefaPS9 49,
enjoyable, gave no una a1IIs.
sere OF no doubtful yala
the best market il thu
home market, and gave
possible returns, satisiacoa 81
port.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01
Flirting,

"Do not iirt, girls, though it be sv-
or such a little flirt." Young woman
just setting out in life, avoid flirting
as you would avoid a desolate heart,
q darkened lie and q furnished repu.
tation, for TO many q one who has
gone before ii has brought them ali,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01
SHAM Execution In Texas.

A dispatch from TT Worth, Texas, saws.
Campbell Langley, father OF the once mo-
torious Bill Langley, removed to Bell
county, from nea Lexington, Lee county,
twelve years ago. During his residence in
Lee and Bell counties he has been known
as n well-to-do farmer and an upright citi-
zen. Campbell Langley a Bill, who
was publicly hanged twelve years ago in
Giddinss, Lee county, was not hurt at
all, but was allowed toescape. The father
says when h supreme court and the gov
ernor refused TO intervene in Bills behalf,
a rich uncle in California came to the res
cue with 81, 600, with which he so worked
upon the sympathy OF the sheriff that the
friends OF Bill were permitted to arrange
things so-that when the drop Tell tho weight
Of the body fell upon an iron hoop. sup
ported by a body harness. in such q man.
her that he escaped unhurt. Bill has been
living since his supposed execution in Nj
caragua. where he is a leading citizen, and
one OF the largest land owners and cattle
herders IN Central America.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01
Canada has enough issues on

Canada has enough issues on hand
to keep her busy. She has d land
row out in British Columbia, a rail-
road muss in Manitoba, a secession
movement in Nova Scotia gaining
force with each successiveyear, a pub
lie debt. which is spiritually unmanagea-
bic and annually growing heavier and
a fisheries squabbie With the United
States that may yet turn out a more
serious thing than her rulers now
seem to anticipate.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01
Some Exesllept Advice as to Whom ana Whom
Not to Marry,

Some Excsllept Advice As to Whom ana whom
Not to Marry.
Home Journal.
Girls, don't marry a man for
money, position or anything but
love. Don't do it, if you want
to live to a good old age and be
happy. You may think that money
can bring you all you desire, but it
cart That is where you are mis-
taken. 1t a buy q good many
things, but it can never purchase CON
tentment for your heart or happiness
for your soul. 1t may bring temper
airy smiles to your face, but it will
leave great shadows in your heart.
Don't think that / would advise you
to marry a worthless fellow, Just
because you imagine you love
him. A refined, good, intelligent
woman should never marry a vulgar,
iil.bred man. No, no, never unite
yourself to any one who is not a man
in the tru"st meaning of the word.
Neither could | nd Niso n woman to
marry a man who had no visible means
oil supporting her, but for heavens
sake don't marry a millionaire or a
king, if you don't love him. 1t
will not do. People have tried it
time and time again, only to find it a
miserable failure. 1t may do for
awhile. You may resel in gilded
halls, and be lost in the giddy rounds
o. pleasure, but a time will come when
these things will be a hollow mockers-
to you. There will be an "aching
void" the world can never fill. Some
times mothers are to blame for the
unhappIness OF their daughters. They
teach them that respect for their hus.
band and lots of doodle" are infinite.
ly to be preferred to that foolishness
called love. That would do we'll
enough if life had no waves OF trouble,
but it takes something more than
simple, res pect to make two hearts
cling together in the hour Of adversity.
A woman that turns her back on
wealth and takes the man of her
choice may miss some of the Injuries
of life, but she will be happy. Don't
marry a dude. Better getyou a mon.
key. 1t is cheaper, and a great deal
nicer. Don't fool with that class of
animals. They generally wear a ten
dollar hat on q ten-cent brain, and
the woman who takes one OF these
chaps will get left about as bad as the
Southern Confederacy did at Appom-
attox.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01

Two scientists Of Belgium have in
vented Z telephonouhich promises to
work wonders. The wire can be run
along the ground through xiyers or
over walls aud SO long as the wire
remains intact, conversation can be
carried on for short distances. It.
promises 20 be useful on a field Of bat
tie, or to connect gentleman's resi-
aences in the country.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01

John A. Williams Of California'
given to charity over $500 ovV.
be now says that If he had bis y
live over again he would les the
and the public take care oiths1nss
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-01
Good Compilations.

Harpsr's Bazaar.
English women, as a rule, possess in
youth and keep till age the finest com.
p~lexion. Their climate is kind to
them. Its perpetual moisture seems
to keep them in perpetual bloom, as
it does their wonderful roses. But
besides their climate, their customs
favor them. English girls are kept in
the nursery or the school-room, free
from the excitement of late hours,
rich food, adult society, fashionable
dress or habits, till their constitutions
are established and their physiques
developed. The simple food, daily
bath, hours spent out of doors, on
foot or on horseback, and unevent-
ful life, give them sound stomachs,
hearty livers, and Tranquil nerves,
and the beautiful ~colorings is a mat
ter of curse. 1t cannot be SAID too
strongly that health is the only safe
renovator oil the complexion. Clean
illness is the one universal cosmetic.
And if the women of this generation
have lost their freshness through care
lessness or ignorance, or spite of eli
mate, they can at last rear their daugh-
ters to preserve that inheritance Of
beauty &c which most Americans are
born,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-11-03
sECTIONALIsM.

The first subject upon which ! wish to say
something to you to-day is the danger Of
sectionalism in this country The danger of
the country being divided into parties by
geographical lines. This danger was foreseen
at the very foundation Of the government,
and never were more forcible, nay, pathetic
words spoken to any people on this globe
than werespoken by the Father Of his Country,
George Washington, in his Farewell Address,
in which he warned the American people
against the dangers Of sectionalism, and
especially against political parties being
formed upon geographical lines. The same
idea was enforced by Andrew Jackson in his
Farewell Address, and among the splendid
specimens Of oratory that we find in the
works of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster,
there are none more touching, none more
forcible, none that appeal to our patriotism
and our good sense more than what they said
in urging upon the attention Of the American
people this same danger which Washington
was the first to point out.
Now, my friends, have We not had enough
experience to show that these warnings were
the warnings Of wise men? Have we not in
this very generation, passed through one Of
the greatest civil wars that ever devastated
any portion Of Gods earthY And does not
every one know that however many causes
may have excited that lamentable and ter
rible struggle, the spirit Of sectionaism was one
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-11-03


that the States were indestructible, and that
therefore no State, by going into rebellion,
had destroyed itself, what did these political
leaders in the Congress of the United States
doH Why, even before that decision was
pronounced, Mr.. Sumner introduced in the
Senate Of the United States long string Of
resolutions in which he asserted that the
States which had gone into rebellion had
thereby abdicated their statehood, and were
reduced to the condition of territories of the
United States, to be governed as Congress
should see fit to govern them. Other Re-
publican statesmen went nearly as far, though
lot quite 90 far as that, and the result was
that when the war was at an end, by the laws
Of Congress, all existing States in the south
were overthrown, and not by the voice of
the people, thousands upon thousands of
white men at the south were disfranchised,
forbidden to hold Office and prohibited to
vote, while every negro man, ignorant as an
ape though he might be, was entitled to vote
and to hold any Office whatever within the
gift Of the people, and then, in order to en-.
force these provisions, the whole south was
divided into military districts and put under
the government of 50 many Brigadier Gen
erals Of the army Of the United States, and
still further to consolidate the south, and to
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-26
National opera Company

New YORK, March. 25.-The National
Opera company is making decided success
at the Metropolitan opera house, and nota-
bly, with Rubenstein's Nero" Tonight,
on the fourth representation of it, the house
contained the largest audience it has ever
held, the vast auditorium being densely
packed in every part. The arrangements for
spring tour of the company were completed
to-day. The season at the Metropolitan
will close April 2 and the following week
the company will appear in Albany, Syra-
cuse, Cleveland, Columbus, and Peoria, Ill.
Omaha will be visited April II and IL and
then the company will make straight for
San Francisco, travelling in two special
trains of fourteen baggage cars and
eleven Pullman coaches. The company
number over 800 persons. After San
Francisco the following cities will be. Wis
tied: Los Angeles. Denver. Topeka, Kansas
City, St. Louis, Louisville Minneapolis
and St. Paul, the company returning to
New York June 90, when thes arrange
ments will be completed for the third sea-
son of American opera, which will be
opened at the Academy of Music Nov. IA.